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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Transit Method Is the Primary Way of Detecting Planets
The transit method is our primary way of detecting these things. When the object passes, occludes the source of light just a tiny bit,. And from that, we can infer something about its mass and size and geometry. But this is a super far away. How many pixels of information do we have? Basically, how high resolution is the signal that we can get about these occlusions? You're right in your description. I think just to build upon that a little bit more, it might be almost like your vision is completely blurry. You have an extreme eye prescription, and so you can't resolve anything. Everything is just blurs.
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